Turfway Park pads purses for stakes races in winter-spring meet

1:08 PM,
Dec. 13, 2013

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Turfway Park announced Friday that it will increase purses for six stakes races in its 2014 winter-spring meet, thanks to extra money available through the fund that supplements purses for Kentucky-bred horses.

In addition, Turfway is raising the Kentucky-bred money for allowance races by $1,500 each beginning Saturday and continuing through the rest of the holiday meet that ends this Dec. 31.

The John Battaglia Memorial, Turfway's major prep to its Grade III Spiral Stakes, has had its purse restored to $100,000 after being trimmed to $75,000 last year, with $25,000 in Kentucky ...